Current entrance to SuZhou Polytechnical Intitute of Agriculture New Entrance being built. I live on the 3rd floor of the building on right
The New Campus Entrance was made visible last night - Construction Fence was removed.
Departing the school, turning right into Xiyuan Road.
This canal runs past the College on the Eastern side, then travels under the road. This is the other side of Xiyuan road.
To the right of the canal above
End of the street turn right into Tong Jing North Road.
After turning right again, into FengQiao Road, you come to the Xi Yuan Temple.
One of two Walkbridges over the canal to Xi Yuan Temple: Taken from the other Walkbridge looking back toward Tong Jing North Road.
Back gate to SuZhou Polytechnical Institute of Agriculture. There is another walkbridge out of frame on the right.
FengQiao Road SuZhou City Jiangsu Province looking back toward Tong Jing North Road.
The canal intersects with another further down from the college on the Western Side. They are dredging the canal. The next photo was taken while standing in the same location.
Tourist boat travelling the canal beside Feng Qiao Road SuZhou.
While taking the photos above, this very old lady walked by. She's carrying discarded foam packaging.
Further on down the road before crossing under the Freeway.
View of the underpass and tourist sign.
Interlude:
In the Magic City News article, I mentioned that Prism and Hunter asked me to assist them by correcting the English in the speech they had to give. Here now is the version of the speech as it was when they left my home.
In March, spring is in the air. In this wonderful season, we welcome our Italian friends.
Firstly I'd like to introduce myself, my name is Prism, this is Hunter. Please allow us as representatives of the students here at SuZhou Polytechnical Institute of Agriculture, to take this opportunity to extend our hearty welcome to our Italian friends. We value your visit to us and we prize the relationship between our two schools.
This school, SuZhou polytechnical institute of Agriculture in Suzhou, a city which is referred to as “Venice in the East”.
Over the last 99 years, it has developed as a very good professional school. Our excellent flower exhibition in Holland a few years ago demonstrated our faculty reputation and professionalism.
Today, because this institute has available to it multiple resources and has a distinct teaching advantage, it is able to recruit students from all over the country. Currently there are over 6000 students studying here. We also have at the moment, 7 foreign teachers, from Australia, Italy and Japan, which adds to the international feel of the college.
With 3 field locations for student's practical experience, and many close business relationships within the Province of JiangSu, SuZhou Polytechnical Institute of Agriculture has a distinct professional teaching advantage. This advantage has been extended in recent years to include new subject majors, such as Business English and Business Japanese, and has resulted in an increase in our flexibility and creativity in training students to be specialists in their chosen fields.
Our Students view this institute not just as a school, but as a miniature society that not only teaches us what to study but how to study and improve our abilities.
You can see in this powerpoint presentation how the school is training us for the future, and we students appreciate all that the Institute does for us.
On November 11th this year, Suzhou Polytechnical Institute of Agriculture will celebrate it's centenary. As it continues into it's second centenary, not only will it uphold it's tradition of quality teaching, but it will continue to expand and develop, reaching new heights of achievement.
As we continue to develop this excellent institute, we welcome your active participation and advice. Let us therefore unite together as one; hand in hand marching forward into the future.
FengQiao Road crosses under a freeway and continues down to HanShan Temple.
In the back streets behind HanShan Temple, there was a steep but short bridge that crossed over the canal. These next two shots are of either side of the bridge.
Construction in the Canal
We did not travel to Hanshan by continuing on FengQiao Road. We turned left at the overpass, then right into JinMen Road. We rode across that arched bridge (left to right)
Taken from the arched bridge where FengQiao Road crosses under freeway.
Same location as above - notice HanShan Tower in left corner.
Entrance from the Main Road at beginning of River Bridge.
The next two are a panorama of the FengQiao Scenic Area & HanShan Temple
The next two were taken outside a ticket office to the Park.
A ship traveling up the canal past HanShan
Two views from the otherside of the bridge showing the canal and looking toward Shihu Lake.
FengQiao Scenic and Historic Area Introduction Sign.
Beware!! - This photograph will offend some people
This is a photo of one part of the FengQiao Scenic and Historical Area Rules. It is an English translation posted at the park, and the language used in it will cause some people to be offended. If you are easily offended do not read it!
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The joys of translation! Chinglish is better than no English!
This one is for Willie who like me, likes the old construction and architectural type stuff!
R.P.BenDedek is from Brisbane Australia and is the author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' at http://www.kingscalendar.com His academic articles set forth Apologetics for and results of his discovery of an "artificial chronological scheme" running through the Bible, Josephus, the Damascus Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Seder Olam Rabbah.
He writes photographic 'Stories from China' and social editorial commentaries, both at KingsCalendar, and as a contributing newspaper columnist. He currently teaches Conversational English in China and in addition to his English Lessons at KingsCalendar, he has created specific sites for Students of English.
